Here they come. Like actors in a bad remake of "Night of the Living Dead," the ghouls are lurching up and down the streets of Boulder again. They hope to get the chance to feed one more time on the rotting corpse of a little girl.

Goofy Greta von Facelift, perpetually sneering Nancy Graceless, hyperventilating Rita Crosby and other hyenas are snarling over the remains, trying to crush Jon Benet's bones to get at one last savory morsel that hasn't already been sucked dry. But even if there is nothing left, they seem to survive on each other's regurgitation for a whole week's news cycle.

This re-awakening that brought the zombies to Boulder has nothing to do with Karl Rove. It's simply lagniappe for him -- a serendipity that comes along all too frequently these days because of our media's insatiable thirst to fill air time with low-cost sensational crap.

Reporting real stories is a crap shoot. You can send Wolf Blitzer to Tel Aviv at great expense and let him drone on and on about stuff that the average American dumbass couldn't care less about, or you can run a 20-second piece of video over and over and over of a creepy screwball making looney faces and taking a perp walk, and fill a whole day's news hole for peanuts.

If you were a savvy and cost-conscious CNN producer, which would you chose?

She served her purpose. She's spent. She did her duty like a good Republican soldier. She did it for the team.

I actually do pity this poor fool of a woman who thought she'd get a second date after she pulled the train for the whole football team.

He waited until after he abandoned the Democratic Party to call for Rummy's ouster. Flip floppin' Joe. This way, he hopes to keep some Democrats voting for him. But how is this going to play with his new Neo-con supporters? Obviously, he weighed the down side and figures that Rumsfeld is probably going to get tossed over the side anyway and that he will be seen as giving him the last shove. Always thinking, always playing the angles, that's Holy Joe. A sleazy self-serving bastard right up to the end.

Bush Today: "You know, I hear a lot of talk about civil war. I'm concerned about that, of course, and I've talked to a lot of people about it. And what I've found from my talks are that the Iraqis want a unified country..."

No they don't! The Kurds have been running television commercials in certain US cable markets advertising that they are an independent country called "Iraqi Kurdistan."

Do you get that, Bushy Boy? Iraqi Kurdistan? I know you don't read or watch TV, but somebody on your staff does, right?

Iraqi Kurdistan.

They have their own standing army, the Peshmurga, who won't even allow Iraqi coalition troops into their territory.

They have their own oil and gas fields and pipelines that run through Turkey to the Black Sea and there is no disruption whatsoever in their system. They are making money hand over fist.

Their television commercial beckons "Come see the 'other' Iraq. It's peaceful, it's safe and it's ready for business. Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan."

And when Iraq finally blows apart, which is inevitable, they'll just drop the Iraqi part of the name and declare themselves KURDISTAN and we'll buy our oil from them just the same.

I don't believe there are as many Stars 'n Bars Confederate racists in Virgina as George Allen would like to believe and to hope for.

Jim Webb is by far the better candidate and I believe he will win in November. Not so much because Allen just committed political suicide with his Macaca in his mouth, but because Webb is a man of experience.

What does Jim Webb stand for as a candidate? First and foremost, Jim Webb's stand on National Security and the current war in Iraq: He has put out a position paper clearly stating his goal to end our occupation of Iraq and to stop the Bush Neocon Machine from building the permanent bases and Fortress Baghdad Embassy I have written about recently here.

Other things I personally like about Webb is that he was an advocate for better treatment of our nation's veterans. He will lend his expertise in military matters as issues come before Congress concerning the welfare of our disabled vets and those who served honorably, only to face indifference at home in terms of unfair financial burdens and racial discrimination.

There are those who say just because he served in combat doesn't mean he's going to keep his promises once he's in Congress. Indeed, you have only to look at John McCain to find a heroic war veteran who rolled over on his back and peed on himself on behalf of the Republican Party.

I think Jim Webb is sincere and intelligent. It remains to be seen if those qualities will hold any value among the minority of tobacco chewing hillbillies who fly the flag of treason on their pickup trucks and would rather vote their prejudices than make Virginia go forward instead of backward.

It's true that conservatives have more kids. But they've been marrying their cousins for so long, a great many of their offspring are incapable of performing tasks much more complicated than pushing the remote button on the TV to tune in to FOX.